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March 8, 2008

Microsoft's Puzzle2

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one
mile south, one mile east, and one mile north,you reach
the place where you started?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Infinitely many. The north pole of course, and any point one mile south of which the distance around the world is an 1/n miles for n an integer >= 1.

Anonymous said...

The Bermuda Triangle.

Anonymous said...

No Points are there.

IWIN

Anonymous said...

No Points are there.

IWIN

Unknown said...

If we consider perfect sphere as the shape of the earth then two poles satisfy the conditions

God.V said...

If we consider Earth as a perfect sphere...this condition will be satisfied of all the points on the Diameter circle...i.e infinite points...

Consydering the earth...its posible on the poles..

Anonymous said...

ther will be 3 points exactly, one from his place to south, 2nd from south to east and 3rd frm east to his place as

Anonymous said...

ther will be 3 points exactly, one from his place to south, 2nd from south to east and 3rd frm east to his place

Anonymous said...

"God" is wrong again. The south pole does not satisfy the conditions - it is impossible to travel south from the south pole.

The answer is also not 3 points exactly. The question does not ask how many points his path has but at how many places you can do that. This problem was answered correctly and succinctly by the first poster.

chaitu said...

2, north pole and south pole

Unknown said...

North Pole and south pole.